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Monday, 3 July 2017

New Gun for the T-34

In order to improve the artillery armament of the T-34 tank, the State Committee of Defense decrees that:

The 85 mm tank gun designed by TsAKB (comrade Grabin) is accepted into service and named "85 mm tank gun model 1944 (S-53)".

T-34 tanks, starting with January of 1944, will be armed with the 85 mm tank gun model 1944 (S-53), installed with the stock turret ring, instead of the 76 mm F-34 gun.

Implement the following plan for transferring to producing T-34 tanks with 85 mm guns in NKTP factories:

January: 25

February: 100

March: 300

April: 800

and then, starting with May, produce only T-34 tanks with 85 mm guns.

The NKO (comrades Yakovlev and Fedorenko) must supply tank factories with, and the NKV (comrade Ustinov) must produce the following amount of 85 mm guns for rearming T-34 tanks and SU-85 SPGs on the T-34 chassis:

January: 270

February: 400

March: 650

April: 1000

May: 1650

To ensure the production of T-34 tanks and SU-85 SPGs on the T-34 chassis, approve the following plan to transition to production of 85 mm tank guns instead of 76 mm F-34 tank guns: